Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord,.... Or, "the earth has trembled at the presence of the Lord"; so the Syriac and Arabic versions render it; the imperative is sometimes put for the preterite or past tense, see Ps 22:9, likewise the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions thus render it, "the earth is moved at the presence of the Lord"; and then the sense is by a prosopopoeia.
Is it to be wondered at, that we, the sea, the river of Jordan, the mountains and hills, have fled, or have been driven back, or have skipped like rams and lambs, when the whole earth, of which we are a part, has trembled at the presence of God?
who, when he does but look, the earth trembles; and when he touches the hills, they smoke, Ps 104:32. It is at the same presence of God we have been thus moved, the power of which we have felt, evenat the presence of the God of Jacob; who brought Jacob out of Egypt, led him through the sea, and gave him the law on Sinai.